HIGHEST price paid at last Wednesday's auction held by Woodwards of Cork was £10,500 for a floral still life by the late 17th/early 18th century Flemish artist Jean Baptiste Bosschaert. A pair of watercolour portraits of James Joyce by Louis Le Brocquy went for £3,300, a watercolour of Kinsale's old fish market by Lay Kate Dobbin fetched £2,700 and both a view of Inishbofin by Desmond Carrick and an oil called The Oyster Catchers by Norah McGuinness sold for £1,700.

Among the furniture, an Ewardian Adam style mahogany bow fronted sideboard sold for £1,000, both a Victorian carved mahogany lady's armchair and a Victorian walnut and mahogany break front pedestal side board fetched £900 and a Victorian gilt overmantle went for £750.